Ashoura Day

Shiite Muslim child Mahmoud Slieman after his mother cut him with a sword during the annual ritual to mark Ashoura Day in the southern Lebanese town of Nabatiyeh, Tuesday March 2, 2004. Ashoura day marks the Shiite Muslim’s commemoration of the 7th century killing of their most revered Saint Imam Hussein. Al Hussein was a grandson of Islam’s prophet Mohammed and is a symbol of martyrdom for Shiites. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)